When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

The past has to inform the present...

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.